Notorious Hamas fundraiser Mohammed al-Hanooti is set to appear from July 13 through 15 at Masjid Al-Noor, a mosque near the University of Memphis operated by the Islamic Association of Greater Memphis. It is also the home of the university’s Muslim Student Association.

Mohammed al-Hanooti has been identified by federal prosecutors and top counterterrorism officials as a enthusiastic supporter of Hamas — serving as one of its top fundraisers — and also as an active supporter of terrorism and extremist Islamic ideology for several decades. He also holds the rare distinction of not only being named by prosecutors as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial, the largest terror finance case in American history, but also of being listed as a conspirator in the trial of the “blind sheik” Omar Abdel Rahman for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and planned follow-up attack on New York City landmarks. FBI agents have also testified that al-Hanooti was a participant in an infamous 1993 meeting in Philadelphia of senior Hamas leaders in the U.S.

Al-Hanooti’s terror ties go back to the 1980s, when he served for two years as the first president of the Islamic Association for Palestine, an organization founded by Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook. The group was found liable for $156 million in a civil trial brought by a Chicago couple whose son was murdered by Hamas while waiting for a bus in Israel. In the judge’s order in that case, he cited “strong evidence that IAP was supporting Hamas, consistent with the FBI’s surveillance reports.”

Evidence submitted by the government in the Holy Land Foundation trial also implicates al-Hanooti’s role in the top leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood and its Palestine Committee, formed specifically to provide support for Hamas. A 1988 list of U.S. Muslim Brotherhood leaders shows al-Hanooti as serving on the group’s sharia court. He also appears on a 1993 list of U.S. and international Palestine Committee members. Other documents entered as evidence include a 1991 study on Hamas featuring a forward by al-Hanooti, and a 1995 FBI wiretap transcript of al-Hanooti talking with one of the Holy Land trial defendants about how to raise money for the legal defense of Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook, then facing trial in New York.

A November 2001 memorandum on the Holy Land Foundation’s financial support for Hamas, prepared by FBI counterterrorism assistant director Dale Watson, details information provided by two separate informants that al-Hanooti “was a big supporter of Hamas” who held fundraisers for the terror group, and that “al-Hanooti collected over six million U.S. dollars for support of Hamas.”

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Terry, Eilat - Israel

With all those qualifications, I’m sure he’ll find a place as an adviser on Islam with the White House. Maybe he can be Obama’s spiritual adviser in place of Rev. Wright.
Who knows, he might be hired by the Dept. of Justice to help them implement Shari’a.
You think I’m being sarcastic, right? Well, I’m not.

Somebody at DOJ needs to pull their head out and put the shackles on Hanooti, it is absolutely disgraceful and deeply disturbing that trash like this is allowed to raise funds for terror against us in our own country.

Excellent reporting and analysis, as usual, from Mr. Poole. However, as a huge fan of The King I would like to submit some alternative titles for this piece:
1) (Hunka Hunka) Burning Jihad
2) All Blown Up
3) Are You Dhimmi Tonight?
4) Suspicious Feds
5) Can’t Help Preaching Jihad
6) Hard-Headed Dhimmi
7) It’s Now or Never–good as is
8) Killing Them Loudly
9) Muhammad’s Way
10) Viva Medina

The Masjid al-Noor mosque, supposedly the site of this appearance, says there is no such appearance scheduled. Also, the Muslim Society of Memphis, says there is no such appearance scheduled at any mosque in Memphis. Could the writer have mistaken the city?

I have actually been inside that very mosque to hear the imam speak (out of curiosity). I had friends who attended and were members of MSA (Muslims)
But many held very extremist views and spoke OPENLY to me about them, so I no longer am friends with any of them. I do not speak to them. I no longer keep in touch with any of my former muslim friends. I DO NOT support jihadist views (I am not, and never will be a muslim)

A terrorist student was even arrested on the very campus with flight plans and other terrorist materials. YES, I am serious.

I hope the FBI and Homeland Security is keeping a close watch on the University of Memphis campus. I am suspicious of the ummah there. Very.

Also, Brigitte Gabriel came in 2006 and the Muslim students acted like barbaric animals and would hardly give her a chance to speak. Rushing the stage, shouting at her. She lived through 7 years in a bomb shelter, getting shot at. Injured by shells from a bomb that her house..and said she’s never felt this way with an audience before. So attacked.